The New York Bible Society last year distributed 60,124 Bibles and Testaments in this city. Some idea ol the cosmopolitan sides of the greater pity may be gathered from the fac that the books distributed were in twenty-four different languages, not dialects, but basic languages. A man in Paris finds a profitable business in collecting bad debts by stopping at the debtor's with a wagon, around the top of which are these words: "This buggy only stops iu front of the houses of people who will not pay their debts." Everybody, ami particularly business people, dread this man's buggy so much that they pay promptly. The editor of the Murfroesborc (Tenn.) News thus accounts for hard limes: "We let our timber rot and buy fencing. We throw away oui ashes and grease, and buy soap; w< raise dogs and buy hogs; we raisi weeds and buy vegetables; we catcl five-cent fisli with four-dollar rods we build school houses and send on: children off to be educated, and, lastly we send our boys out with a forty dollar gun and a ten-dollar dog to bun ten-cent birds." "Dnm-dum"' is the curious name o: n new bullet of which the British Gov eminent has been making a test. Ex periments would seem to justify tin title: for this small-arm missile pro duces u wound which is more fatal an< terrible than the old bullet of si owe velocity. A bullet that makes a large, exit than entrance, even after wreak ing havoc within, would certain!; strike a soldier dumb-dumb. Ii America has recently been invented however, a secret solution by whiel leaden bullets may be coated so as ti render them superior to steel-casec bullets. At a distance of thirty yard, some of these coated balls pierced ai ax blade and others bored through i flat-irou. According to the New York Tribune Mr. Lorrillard, the rich New Yorke; who lias been living in England som years, "seems to be talking at ran dom. His assertion that Englishmec will not invest money iu America ever at twenty per cent, income is wild, and his prediction of a currency panic here is still wilder. Is he await of the fact that gold in the Bank o England would be below the dangei line to-day but for our leniency, anc that foreigners will probably owe ui on trade balance at the expiration o! the year $o00,000,000? Is he no! aware that we sell to Europe what slit must have, and buy from her nothing that we must have? Political econ oiuy is not taught on English ract tracks." Savs Harper's Weekly: "While th< English language is spreading over the face of the globe wherever liberty is possible, it is sad to mark the ap parent incapacity of the noble Germar tongue to conquer new territory oi even to maintain itself within its owi legal limits. In Bohemia it is rapidly disappearing. In Hungary it has been exterminated within the last fifty years The eastern provinces of Prussia have been in German hands more than ll)(j years, vet the people there are as lit tie Prussian to-day as when Kosciusko laid down his life for personal liberty The Danish provinces were conquered more than thirty years ago, yet the new geuerntiry speaks Danish and hates the very name of Prussia. In Alsace Lorraine, men who were babies ic 1870 have now served their time in tlu German army, and are nominally Ger man subjects: yet the German lan guage finds there a resistance insur mountable, even with the aid of a vas army of spies, gendarmes, officials and 60,000 troops. A large Massa chusetts manufacturer passed througl the province this summer, and had oc casiou to visit a machine shop ai Muhlhauseti, employing some 8001 workmen. As an American the man ager treated him with frankness, and gave him aii opportunity to convince himself that the workmen were Freud at heart in spite of the years that art past. The Baltic provinces of Bussis were German in 1891, but since then Buss ideation has set in with a thor oughness comparable only to the South African rinderpest, and before lonp German linguistic expansion on thai frontier will be as effectually checked in it is in Bohemia, in Posen, in Al sace-Lorraine and on the borders ol Denmark. Nor is the German lan guage faring better in the German colonics, for the simple reason that German emigrants prefer almost any colonial Hag to their own. The official press of Germany clamors for moie warships, iu order to protect alleged German colouists in far-away tropical swauip.s. Territorially, Germany has almost 1,000,000 square miles of col ony, but land without population is like a harbor with no commerce." , jjl WHERE IS IT? "Too much money In the country"— That's what some folks say; Wish they'd please locate it for us— Send it down this way! If they've got it. and don't prize it, Reckon we could utilize it! "Too much money in the country"— Talkin' jest like that! Wish they'd tell us in a whisper Where that money's at! If they'll tell us where they hide it We'll be wllllu' to divide it! "Too much money iu the country Everywhere you walk!" Wish they'd stop their tongues a minute, Let that money talk! If they've got it. and don't prize it, Reckon we could utilize it! —Atlanta Constitution. G3003003000303000030000000 | OUR BOARDERS. g 0 3000003000033000300000000 ffcai , jV E had settled down to housekeeping in . V the town of D , where Jack, who i was a lawyer,hoped M to win fame and gk fortune, f* Our house wns large and old-fash- ioned.andal though built half a century ago was still iii yt good repair. A broad, well-kept lawn sloped away to a shaded carriage drive on the west. On the opposite side, the flower beds bloomed blight and beautiful, a genuine delight to nie from the appearance of the first snow drop to the last chrysanthemum. A heart-shaped bed of pansies, purple, white, velvety black and yellow, looked out with old-fashioned primness and dignity_from the centre of the front lawn at the passersby. At the back of the house were the kitchen garden, with its trim box hedges, and the old ham or carriage house, a sorrowful remuaut of better days. The latter was now untenanted save by a few de predatory swallows and a family of yel low-jackets, who had taken up their abode in the vacant hay loft. Our family, besides Jack and my self, consisted of two boarders, Mr. Prince and Mrs. Fellis and our two servants. Mr. Prince, who was get ting on in years, was extremely digni fied, always dressed in respectable black; he came and went about the house as he pleased. He had been with us for some time and Jack and I had become very fond of hira. He was quiet and good-natured, went on oc casional errands, and never failed each morning to carry in the mail and lay it beside Jack's plate at the breakfast table. He had, however, two fault 3, which in my eyes were very grave. He would never wipe his feet before entering the house, andalthough Iliad admonished him several times for his lack of thought. I had been unable to break up his careless liabit. His favorite lounging place was the broad Turkish couch, with its numerous pil lows, which occupied oue corner of our cosy library. He would stop in the doorway, look cautiously about him, and finding the room tenantless, would throw himself down among the pillows; never failing to rest his tin wiped feet upon the prettiest oue of the number. One day, finding him there, my wrath overcame my courtesy nnd I un ceremoniously dragged the pillow from beuenth his feet. My heart smote me immediately for my harsh ness as he awoke, left the couch and walked out of the room without even a glance iu my direction. His wounded feelings soon healed, for a day or two later I found hiin comfortably en sconced in his clil place. Our other boarder was a pretty young widow, Mrs. Fellis by name. Jack had known her before we wore married, but somehow I never felt jealous of this acquaintance. She was gentle and affectionate but excessively nervous. Her dress was always of the softest gray. Black she detested, as it was decidedly unbecoming to her small figure. She would sit for hours iu a large old easy-chair in the library, | where she and I spent most of our ; time. X always fancied that she had 1 a good voice, though I had never heard ! her sing. She had an exasperating habit of humming a certain monotonous j tune in u low key at all hours of the I Jay. Toward Jack and myself she was j friendly and affectionate, though never demonstrative; but when in company with Mr. Priuce she preserved a frigid dignity, and met all his overtures of friendship with n cold rebuff. She had peculiar fancies and queer fond nesses for odd places. The old barn was a favorite haunt, and here she would spend hours at a time, revelling apparently in its solitude and dilapi dation. It was untenanted, as I have said, except for the swallows and wasps who built their nests beneath its rotting eaves. Occasionally a tramp would stray in under cover of dark ness ami claim its hospitality for the night. What Mrs. Fellis fancied in the place we never knew, hut Jack and I seemed powerless to prevent j her from going there. It was at the close of a hot August afternoon. Mrs. Fellis anillsat upon ! the broad piazza behind the thick curtain of woodbine, attempting to keep cool, ft was too warm even for conversation. I dozed over my hook at one end of the piazza and Mrs. Fel lis nodded drowsily at the other. Mr. Prince lay stretched at full length beneath one of the huge maples on the lawn. He was in a bad humor occasioned by the appear ance of a tramp et the gate half an hour previous. Mr. Prince was dis tinctively snobbish. To poorly dressed people he was barely civil, while tramps were his special aversion. He had dispatched this last, specimen with small ceremony, and now lay panting from his exertions. The heat was intolerable, not a breath of air was stirring. The leaves drooped, dusty and motionless, and over all hung that peculiar, ominous calm which betokens the approach of an electrical storm. Soon we heard mutterings of distant thunder, and in a few moments the storm burst upon us. The rain fell in torrents, the wind roared furiously, and blinding Hashes of lightning followed each other with startling rapidity. At the first sharp peal of thunder, Mrs. Pel lis, whose nerves were never strong, and were now completely shat tered, gave one wild glance around, sprang from the piazza and tied to the barn. In vain I called to her. No sooner had she disappeared within its doors than above the howl of the wind and roar of the thunder came a loud crash, followed by screams ol' distress. The old barn had fallen in. Paral yzed with fear at the thought of Mrs. Fellis's fate. I was about to rush alter her when Mr. Prince, who had taken refuge on the piazza when the storm broke, dashed by me and disappeared among the ruins. Very carefully he clambered over loose boards and raft ers, and in a moment or two reap peared, carrying the much frightened but unhurt Mrs. Fellis. He deposit ed liis burden at my feet and once more returned to the ruins. Satisfying myself that no harm had come to the little widow, and quieting her fears as well as I could, I saw her safely seated in her favorite armchair, and throwing on a cloak, the storm having now abated, I went in search of Mr. Prince. I found him furiously tugging at what seemed to be a bundle of rags pinned under the falling tim bers. A few more vigorous tugs and the bundle was dislodged, and there before us, white, and trembling with fright, stood the tramp whose appear ance early in the afternoon had roused Mr. Prince's wrath, and whose screams of terror we had heard above the crash of the falling building. Finding he was unhurt, and not liking the attitude which his rescuer now assumed toward him, he picked his way carefully over the debris, and lost 110 time in getting clear of the prem ises. When Jack returned an hour later I narrated the stirring event of the afternoon, proudly telling of Mr. Prince's coolness and bravery and Mrs. Fellis's narrow escape from a tragic death. Jack listened with de lighted interest, and when I had fin ished caught Mrs. Fellis iu his arms, patted the hero of the hour lovingly on his shaggy black head, and vowed that ho should have the handsomest collar the town could produce; for if ever a dog deserved to be rewarded Prince did, and if Mrs. Fellis failed to love and respect him forever after, she would indeed be an ungrateful cat. Wls E WORDS. Do good constantly, patiently and wisely, and you will ntver have cause to say that life was not Worth living. Do not esteem too lightly the small things of life, for the whole universe of God is made up of insignificant atoms. Life is rather the state of embryo, a preparation for life. A man is not completely born till he has passed through death. Work touches the key of endless activities, opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck before the im mensity of what there is to do. Obstacles which seem to hinder our course afi'ord the best opportunities for developing the courage and ac cumulating the power which we need to pursue it. Affectation in any part of our car riage is lighting up a caudle to our defects, and never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity. How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eterniiy! It is the united action of the brain and the eye that forms the action to close observation. We must think about what we see if it is to be a per manent impression. When the mind is vacant the eyes are robbed of half their value. True piety is of the heart rather than of pretension. The closest stud ents of human nature have found that it is the tragedies and sorrows of life that are the real tests of religion. Most anybody will do that which is profitable. Few are faithful to their own shame and loss. Tvudall once concluded an address to the students of a London university thus: '"Take care of your health. Imagine Hercules as an oarsman in a rotten bout: What can he do but by the very force of every stroke expedite the ruin of his craft ? Take care of the timbers of your life boat." TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE. The two kinds of poopl< on earth, I ween, Are the people who lift and tlio people who lean. Wherever you go you will find the world's masses Are always divided in just these two classes. And, oddly enough, you will find, too, I ween, There is only one lifter to twenty who lean. In which class are you? An- vou easing the load Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road? Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and cars? -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. SHARP INDIAN PACKERS. CARRYING MINERS' OUTFITS OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO THE KLONDIKE. strilthiu Coaliiiiw* of tho Native Alaskan* Who Kiikiikh in tho TrniiHportiitlon JuslneMl>t>gA 104 Assistant*—l'nckerß Are Untrustworthy and Hard Traders. Arrangements for packing are raaile (at Dyea) with Isaac, "Chief for the Chilkoots," as the sign reads above | his cabin, but outside men can bo hired. The Indian men's dress is picturesque. Some wear the gayly colored Mackinaw jacket; others a blue denim garment, half shirt, half coat; others still a loose coat of blan ket, the sleeves or a patch across the back being made of the striped ends, and as the blankets used by these In dians are of the most brilliantly as sorted colors, tlie color effects are dis tinctly striking. For head-gear they wear little common felt hats or bright wool toques or a colored kerchief. All possess rubber hip-boots, but when packing they wear only moccasins outside of "Siwash" or blanket socks, and sometimes an oversock to the knee. Indian fashion, dogs and chil dren, men and women, crowd into their dirty abodes, which smell of spoiled fish. The dogs are not so numerous as I expected, nor yet so quarrelsome and noisy. The Indians train them not so much for sledge-drawing as for pack ing small loads 011 their backs, and it is not unusual to see an Indian with one or two medium-sized dogs, with a little pack on each side, sagging near ly to the ground, trotting along with bis luncheon. When an Indian is packing he ties his single small blanket upon his back under the pack. A stout stick to bal ance with and to assist in climbing completes his outfit. Twenty or thirty Indians will take up packs and put a whole outfit over at one lick. They are not trustworthy aud are wholly unscrupulous. They do nothing even for each other without a price, and I have carefully noticed that they make no distinction between themselves and whites even for the same service. If one engages them at a cortain price and some one offers them more, they lay down their packs and take up the new ones; or if ou the trail they hear of a rise in the scale, they stop and strike for the higher wages. Some of theiu speak good English. Indians from Sitka say these fellows are wild Indians, and look upon their ignor ance of letters with some contempt. But if ignorant of letters, they are shrewd, hard traders, who are making money fast aud saving it. They have a strong predilection for gold, hut at* the same time, as our silver friends will be pleased to know, silver is in no less favor with them. In fact, it seems to he hard money they want. I knew an Indian to declaro solemnly lie could not change a five dollar bill, showing the only two silver dollars he had. But when a gold five was offered in stead, he fished a whole handful of silver out of his pocket. They are taking all the small change out of cir culation. They come to the traders several times a day, make a trifling purchase to get change, and then store it away. The small-i-hauge problem is indeed a serious one. There is not enough small currency in this country to do business with. The gamblers and the Indians are getting it all.— Harper's Weekly. Hydrophobia Without a llite. The death of Mile. Sautasiero from rabies should be a lesson to ladies who kiss lap dogs aud let them lick their faces. Mile. Sautasiero is the daugh ter of the former chef of Queen Isa bella, who keeps a well-known res taurant where one can have Spanish and Neapolitan dishes. The only daughter, aged twenty, had a hull ter rier named Boh, of whom she was very fond. Bob two months ago fell ill. His mistress nursed liirn and lavished caresses on liim. He showed his gratitude in lickiug her face and hands. He then ran away from her and howled if she went near him. The poor brute may have felt an irresisti ble desire to bite, and so wanted not to have that easy opportunity. How ever, he grew worse. He bit, some days ago, two customers and a man who was furnishing ice. They went to the Pasteur Institute, and seem to be doing well, but Mile. Sautasiero, whose foot lie attempted to bite, fell ill last week. She thought she had a cold, and kept on saying: "Boh did not bite me." Certainly his teeth had not pierced the shoe leather. Fever supervened, and then convulsions. The doctor said she was suffering from rabies. When her mother went to kiss her she cried, "You must not, I only kissed Bob, and see, I have this distemper." For two days her convulsive state was dreadful. The third day was quiet till just toward the end, when conges tion supervened suddenly and she died. No trace of a bite could be found on her foot or any other part of her body. The dog's saliva, it is thought, must have been absorbed as lie licked her face. —Paris Telegram to the London News. Where Mimlachei* Are Unxafo. Men exposed to the rigors of tlie Alaska winter never wear mustaches. Tliey wear full beards to protect the throat, and face, but keep the upper lip clean shaven. The moisture from the breath congeals so quickly that a mustache becomes imbedded in a solid cake of ice and the face is frozen be fore a man knows it. A Muslriil Upholsterer. Signer Tosti, the Anglo-Italian com poser, after a hard day's work, either teaching his many royal pupile or of composing, seeks recreation at his fa vorite amusement of upholstering. The greater part of the chairs, and the whole of his wife's boudoir have thus been upholstered by Signor Tosti. BEE MOUNTAIN. Crevasxo Filled With Honey and Occupied by Hnakes. About twenty miles from Cleburne, oil the Brazos river, is Bee mountain. On one side it rises several hundred feet above the country r.round and the other fronts the river and rises per pendicularly for 500 feet. On tlio perpendicular side are several crevas ses or caves, in which places are mil lions of bees and tons upon tons of honey. It is impossible to scale the dizzy heights from below, although the rocks are wornout places that look like steps had been made to climb this mountain ages and ages ago, and it is believed by some that aborigines scaled this cliff to procure honey for their primitive meals. Within the memory of man, how ever, parties have been daring enough to have themselves suspended with a rope and let down to where the bees enter the rocky bluff, aud the tales they told of the vast amount of honey would sound like a story from the "Arabian Nights." One man, a cowboy, who worked on the old Abe Wilson ranch, whioh was quite famous here in an early day, had the temerity to have some of his co-laborers let him down with a rope. Where the bees entered, he said, tho crevasses were not large enough for a man to enter, but a little south of that point was a hole about four feet high and eight or teu feet wide, which he entered. What he saw simply struck him dumb with amazement. There, hanging from the top of the cave, which seemed to extend for a quarter of a mile hack, were great combs of honey twenty or thirty feet long and from four to six feet wide. They looked like a great lot of fine silk lace curtains hanging in some grand old hallway. The humming of the bees sounded like the noise of many spindles in a great factory. He had a hunting knife with him and sliced off a piece of the honey aud ate it, and was just about to slice off more to bring to bis companions on the mountain above, and who were waiting to pull him up, when his attention was drawn to an other direction. On listening closely ho detected a hissing sound and one unlike* that made by the bees. Pre sently, from (he direction from whence the sound proceeded, he saw at least 100 serpents coming toward him, their little beadlike eyes shining in the glare of the torch he carried. To use n street phrase, he "tore oat," leaving his hunting knife and the Klondike of honey behind. When his friends had pulled him up he had fainted from the fright. When he recovered he told them what he had seen. At first they laughed at him. but finally it became an accepted fact that in Bee mountain there are tons of money, but no one since that time has ever been reckless enough to venture in that cave, where not only millions of bees and tons of honey are to be found, but where a den of serpents greets the intruder. Alderman Tom Childress has a sum mer home whioh adjoins this mountain, and is going to tunnel into the side oi it and try to arrange to exterminate the serpents and have this wonder to exhibit to his friends.—Galveston News. Oiesoii's Christian Martyr*. "Eleven years of tlie united life of Dr. and Mrs. Whitman had passed," writes George Ludington Weed of Dr. Whitman's patriotic achievement in saving Oregon to the United States, in the Ladies' Homo Journal. "In all his labors she had been an inspiration and a support, sometimes the only one. But the life of romantic beginning was to have a tragic ending. Whatever the causes of that endiug, direct or remote, or whatever their relative force, the result was one of the sad dest in American history. In it Dr. aud Mrs. Whitman must ever be re cognized as the Christian patriot martyrs of Oregon. The fatal day was November 29, 1847, just half a cen tury ago. The full tale of its horrors need not here be told, though tho iucidents are at hand. The partly-lifted curtain reveals enough— Dr. Whitman's fall by the tomahawk at the age of forty-five, and Mrs. Whit man's by the rifle at the age of thirty nine. There was a shallow grave in vaded by wolves, and then a deeper one, which until now has been with out a monument. Twelve others of their household, butchered with them, share their grave. But the memory of the long-forgotten hero is being re vived. A bronze statue is being erected near the spot in the region of his triumph aud martyrdom. As in palace car I was hurried through it, where his lone wagon had tediously sought the way, he seemed every where present, and each mountain a monument recording his deeds. "The Oregon saved from falling in to the possession of the English by Dr. Whitman's heroic efforts means the Washington, Oregon and Idaho ol to-day, a territory of two hundred and seventy-one thousand square miles, equal to New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virgiuiaaud three Connecticuts." Wild Animals in India. Very liberal rewards are given to the natives of India for the slaying of wild animals and venomous snakes. But in a recent report of the Govern ment of the Central Provinces it ap pears that the number of wild animals for the destruction of which rewards were paid increased from 1471 to 156G, while the number of snakes killed fell from (1845 to 1837. Of tlid cattle killed, tigers were responsible for 7(14, and panthers for 694. Thd number of tigers killed during thi year was 323, as compared with 225 in the previous year. This iucrensd in tiger killing is said to be due main-' Iv to the greater activity on the pari of European and American sportsmen! and, perhaps, also to their improved j marksmanship. I PSALM FOR THE BIBLE, POSSIBLE RESULT OF A DISCOVERY IN AN EGYPTIAN RUIN. Papyrus Hook* Which Contained the realtor Complete—One I'sulm Which IH Absent From the King JmneA Vemlon ot the Bible. A new psalm may be added to tlie Bible now in use in Christian , churches. It will be known as the ! 151 st. The new psalm has just been dis i covered as the result of exploration? made in Egypt. Two years ago, while certain Egyptian peasants were dig ging up and carrying away the lighl | soil which is so much valued foi i dressing, from the ruins of an ancient ; Coptic church, their tools struck o slab of stone. The slab was pried up, and it was found to be the cover of a stone box. In the box were a lot ol books wrapped in coarse linen cloth. The books were of papyrus, but ■ bound in linen covers. [ Those who found the ancient papy rus books sold them to the British Museum, where they have been the subject of closo investigation. They were found to contain a copy of the Psalter written in Coptic, the language spoken by the Egyptians during the time of Christ. Not only was the Psalter complete, but it contained one psalm which does not appear in the King James version of the Bible. It is known as the 151 st psalm and reads as follows: 1. I was small amont* my brethren, and youngest in my father's house. I tended my father's sheep. 2. My hands formed a musical instru ment and iny lingers tuned a psaltrv. 3. And who shall tell my Lord? The Lord Himself, He Himself hears. 4. He sent forth His angel and took me from my father's sheep, and Ho annolnted me with the oil of His anointing. 5. My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them. (. I went forth to meet the Philistine; and ho cursed mo by his idols. 7. But I drew his own sword and be headed him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel. This psalm iH supposed to have been written by David after his combat with Goliath. Its beauty aud vigorous language resemble that of the others in the Psalter. If you will turn to your Bible you will find that the Book of Psalms con tains only 150 of the Hebrew hymns. The new psalm just discovered may add another to the list. Many bibli cal scholars have previously contended that this 151 st psalm should be in cluded iu the version used in the churches. Theologians in former times had disputes upon the prints and it was finally agreed that it should be treated as spurious. But this discovery may lead to a general acceptance of its authenticity by all who revere the Bible. For the manuscript is the oldest complete manuscript of any biblical book known to be in existence. Its exact date is difficult of determination, but it is certainly earlier than the seventh cen tury. Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, keeper ol the Egyptian and Assyrian antiqui ties, in the British Museum, has trans lated the Psalms from the ancient Coptic, and is now prepariug a his tory or the manuscript which will he published by Kegan Paul, French, Trubner & Company, of London. Dr. Budge, whose reputation as an Egyp tologist is world-wide, is confident ol the authenticity and antiquity of the book. In his preface he recounts the history of the discovery and tells of his reasons for belief in their truth. "That these volumes had lain iu the box for several hundred years," says Dr. Budge, "there is no possibility of doubtiug, but there is no way of as certaining the exact period when they were first placed in it. It is the opin ion fof some that the church and monastery which once stood upon the site where the books were found had been iu ruins for some centuries, and the general appearance of the place supports this view. Thero is no rea sou for supposing that the books were buried along with the body of any ec clesiastical official or monk, for it is certain that they had been expressly written for use iu the church of the monastery, aud that they were not the private property of any member of it. "It would seem that at some period of trouble or persecution an official of the church carefully prepared the box in the event of its ever being neces sary to hide books, and that when the need arose he wrapped these volumes in linen with the greatest care, and (laid them in it. Their wonderful state of preservation testifies to the wisdom of the choice of a hiding place and the thoroughness with which he carried out the self-appointed task. "The matter of dating the Psalter Ks one of considerable difficulty, for we have no fixed points iu Coptic paleography to serve for purposes of comparison. The shape and size and general appearance of the pages of the older portion in every respect suggest that the volume cannot have been written after the end of the seventh century r>f our era, hut it seems to me that the date when it was written lies nearer the beginning than the end of that century; it may. indeed, quite well be placed at the end of the sixth century. "When the book had been in use for some time it was put aside for some purpose, probably because of its de fective vondition, and it was not brought into use again until after it had been repaired and rebound; the stylo of the covers, I am informed, suggests the eleventh or twelfth cen tury as the period of the general re pair of the book."—Chicago Times- Herald. During the past year 1920 acres ot laud were planted to canaigree in Ari zona, and the acreage will be much larger the coming year. WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. He looked at my tongue and he shook hi! head— This was Doctor Smart— J Ho thumped on my chest, and then ha snid: I "Ah, thero it is! Your heart! ; You mustn't run—you mustn't hurry! i You mustn't work—you mustn't worry! , Just sit down and take it cool; You may live for years, I cannot say; • But, in the meantime, make it a rule I To take this medicine twice a day!" ! Ho looked at my tongue and he shook his head— This was Doctor Wise— "You're liver's a total wreck," he said, "You must take more exerciser You mustn't eat sweets, You mustn't eat meats. You must walk and leap, you must also run; You mustn't sit down in the (lull old way; Get out with the boys and have some fun— Aud tako three doses of this a day!" He looked at my tongue and he shook his head— This was Doctor Bright— i "I'm afraid your lungs are gone," ho said, "And your kidney isn't right, j A chaugo of scene is what you need. Your case is desperate, indeed , ! And bread is a thing you mustn't eat-*' | Too muoh starch—but, by the way, I You must henceforth live on only meat-* j And take six doses of this a dayl" Perhaps they were right, and perhaps they knew, I It isn't for me to say; ; Mayhap I erred when I madly threw ! Their bitter stuff away; But I'm living yet, and I'm on my feet. And grass isn't all that I dare to eat. And I walk and I run, and I worry, too, But, to suve my life, I cannot see What some of the able doctors would do If thero were no fools like you and mo. —S. E. Klser, in Cleveland Leader. PITH AND POINT. College Maxim: Initiation is the sincerest flattery.—Life. A superfluous man is now alluded to as a third wheel to a bicycle.— Puck. Every woman wonders why the news papers don't have more recipes and less sporting news.—Puck. "Did a servaut come to the door when you rang?" "Heavens, no! It was the cook!" Cincinnati Commer cial-Tribune. The true sailor is like the ocean— however great a roll lie luay have at sea, he breaks when he strikes the shore.—Puck. A man feels hurt if his wife is not interested in his business; but, often times, he doesn't know the color of her last new dress.—Puck. "It would be just like a woman," re marked the observer of m#n and things, "to go around with the chip pinned ou her shoulder."—Detroit Journal. "You want to be careful of Geezer. He don't pay his debts." "Thanks for the tip. You see, I owe him some money."—Philadelphia North Ameri* can. "Plumpton says he is very jealous of his reputation." 4 • Well, he has reason to be. I wouldn't trust it for a moment if I had it."—Chicago News. Sunset Simms (drowsily)—"Dey say de Prince uv Wales never wears a suit of clothes more dan once." Weary Willy—"Well, neederdo we—only it's a longer once."—Puck. When a woman says her acquaint ance's new bonnet is "just horrid," the chances are that she will have one exactly like it in the course of a week or so.—Boston Trauscript. Boresum—"Seems to me I have seen you somewhere." Grumpington —"Very likely. Why don't you go there and hunt for me if you want to see me agaiu?"—Boston Transcript. Hungry Higgius—"As fur eight hours being enough fer a day's work man who'll do a day's work orter git six months."— Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. O'Flaherty (to Nellie, aged nine) —"And what is the good in git ting you a French governess if you goes and says Fido has the mange, in stid of the menage?"— Harper's Ba zar. "Can I change here for Bristol?" said the old lady for the fifteenth time on the journey to the guard. "You can if you like, ma'am," said the of ficial, cheerily, "but you'd better not if you want to get there."—Tit-Bits. Perambulating Florists' Shops. One of tho new wrinkles in trade is the perambulating florist sbop, and it must be confessed that it is a capital means of throwing temptation in the face of the flower buyer. Who can resist these deoorative plants when brought to your very door? Not every one has the knack of cultivating flowers in the house, yet, according to the new scheme of furnishing, it is necessary that palms or some flower ing shrubs should enter into the in terior decoration. In our steam-heat ed rooms the delicate green house beauties soon wither and die. A few hardy plants like the rupper tree, sage palm and ferns may be preserved through one season, but even their freshness mußt be renewed by visits to the florist or gardener. At this sea son, too, appear all sorts of flowering chrysanthemums. Therefore, when one beholds this floral wagon, loaded with their splendid blooms, it is im possible to say them nay. House plants add greatly to the cheerfulness of an apartment. If you can't set np a cat or a dog or a bird, then you must have something that will need tender oversight aud care. What's the mat ter with a baby? Well, a good deal. With all due respect for the light in fantry, it is much easier to watch the growth of a little Japanese lily.—Bos ton Herald. Three Wild Turkeys ut One Shot. Henry Smith, of near Denmark,Va., while out hunting squirrels, camo across a drove of wild turkeys which were so intently taken up with fight ing among themselves that they did no see him, and he filed into the drove and bagged three with one shot. Mr. Smith is more than eighty years of ago.—Baltimore Sun.
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